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Colin George (20 September 1929 – 15 October 2016) was a Welsh actor and director, who was the founding Artistic Director of the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield (1971).
Colin George was also a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company during the years 1994–1999, in plays such as Peer Gynt, Coriolanus, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest and a stage musical adaptation of the French film Les Enfants du Paradis. Television work has included The Doctors in 2005.
George also directed many plays including Antony and Cleopatra and A Man For All Seasons, Richard III, Autumn Crocus, The Merchant of Venice, The Chairs and The Persians, The Boy Friend and The Heiress and The Stirrings in Sheffield on Saturday Night.
He died on 15 October 2016 at the age of 87.
Colin George (20 September 1929 – 15 October 2016) was born in Pembroke Dock, Wales. His father was a Congregational minister from a coalmining family in the Rhondda Valley; his mother was the star of Tenby’s local amateur operatic society. George was interested in acting from a young age, inspired by his hero, Sir Laurence Olivier, and encouraged by his mother and her brother, Harold. George went to boarding school in Caterham, Surrey, and in 1949 – after completing two years’ national service – he went up to University College Oxford to read English. At university he was heavily involved in amateur dramatics, writing, directing and acting in numerous shows and reviews.
After completing his degree in 1952, George teamed up his with friend, Paul Almond, and a group of aspiring actors from Cambridge University—among them John Barton, Toby Robertson and Peter Hall—to create the Oxford and Cambridge Players (this later became the Elizabethan Theatre Company). George toured England with the company for three years, acting and directing in numerous Shakespeare plays. His roles included Petruchio, Romeo, Cassius, Bassanio and Henry V, the latter being performed at the Old Vic and recorded in a live performance for the BBC in 1953.
In 1955, the Company disbanded and George acted in a number of theatres, including one season at the Coventry Rep, before joining the Birmingham Rep in April 1956, the same day as another young actor, Albert Finney. In 1958, George joined the Nottingham Playhouse as Assistant Director to Val May, where he was a driving force in bringing work by new playwrights to the theatre, including Arnold Wesker, John Osborne and Harold Pinter. George also directed outside Nottingham, in 1961 taking productions of ‘A Man for All Seasons’ and ‘Macbeth’ with John Neville in both lead roles to the Manoel Theatre in Malta. He also worked in London, creating the role of Jack Lucas in Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall’s ‘Celebration’ at the Duchess Theatre (1961), and directing Paul Daneman in ‘Richard III’ at the Old Vic (1962).
In 1962 George was appointed Assistant Director of the Sheffield Playhouse, rising to Artistic Director in 1965. Under George’s tenure the Playhouse moved to performing in true repertoire, introduced new and controversial playwrights to Sheffield audiences, and created a children’s theatre company, Theatre Vanguard, which took plays and improvisation into schools across Sheffield. George’s championing of children’s theatre led to his appointment as one of the original members of the Arts Council Panel for Young People’s Theatre.
Colin George
Colin George (20 September 1929 – 15 October 2016) was a Welsh actor and director, who was the founding Artistic Director of the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield (1971).
Colin George was also a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company during the years 1994–1999, in plays such as Peer Gynt, Coriolanus, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest and a stage musical adaptation of the French film Les Enfants du Paradis. Television work has included The Doctors in 2005.
George also directed many plays including Antony and Cleopatra and A Man For All Seasons, Richard III, Autumn Crocus, The Merchant of Venice, The Chairs and The Persians, The Boy Friend and The Heiress and The Stirrings in Sheffield on Saturday Night.
He died on 15 October 2016 at the age of 87.
Colin George (20 September 1929 – 15 October 2016) was born in Pembroke Dock, Wales. His father was a Congregational minister from a coalmining family in the Rhondda Valley; his mother was the star of Tenby’s local amateur operatic society. George was interested in acting from a young age, inspired by his hero, Sir Laurence Olivier, and encouraged by his mother and her brother, Harold. George went to boarding school in Caterham, Surrey, and in 1949 – after completing two years’ national service – he went up to University College Oxford to read English. At university he was heavily involved in amateur dramatics, writing, directing and acting in numerous shows and reviews.
After completing his degree in 1952, George teamed up his with friend, Paul Almond, and a group of aspiring actors from Cambridge University—among them John Barton, Toby Robertson and Peter Hall—to create the Oxford and Cambridge Players (this later became the Elizabethan Theatre Company). George toured England with the company for three years, acting and directing in numerous Shakespeare plays. His roles included Petruchio, Romeo, Cassius, Bassanio and Henry V, the latter being performed at the Old Vic and recorded in a live performance for the BBC in 1953.
In 1955, the Company disbanded and George acted in a number of theatres, including one season at the Coventry Rep, before joining the Birmingham Rep in April 1956, the same day as another young actor, Albert Finney. In 1958, George joined the Nottingham Playhouse as Assistant Director to Val May, where he was a driving force in bringing work by new playwrights to the theatre, including Arnold Wesker, John Osborne and Harold Pinter. George also directed outside Nottingham, in 1961 taking productions of ‘A Man for All Seasons’ and ‘Macbeth’ with John Neville in both lead roles to the Manoel Theatre in Malta. He also worked in London, creating the role of Jack Lucas in Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall’s ‘Celebration’ at the Duchess Theatre (1961), and directing Paul Daneman in ‘Richard III’ at the Old Vic (1962).
In 1962 George was appointed Assistant Director of the Sheffield Playhouse, rising to Artistic Director in 1965. Under George’s tenure the Playhouse moved to performing in true repertoire, introduced new and controversial playwrights to Sheffield audiences, and created a children’s theatre company, Theatre Vanguard, which took plays and improvisation into schools across Sheffield. George’s championing of children’s theatre led to his appointment as one of the original members of the Arts Council Panel for Young People’s Theatre.